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Karine Babajanyan

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Karine Babajanyan completed her vocal studies with honors at the Conservatory of Eriwan, later perfecting her technique in Rome with Mirella Parutto and in Stuttgart with Dunja Vejzovic.

The Armenian soprano began her career at the National Theatre in Yerevan. After first appearances in Germany in Berlin, Essen, Hannover, Koblenz, and Bielefeld, she was named a soloist of the Stuttgart Staatsoper from 2003 to 2011. During these years she performed such diverse roles as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Elettra in Idomeneo, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Leonora in Il trovatore, Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, Mimì in La bohème, Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly, Tosca, and Norma.

The soprano’s exceptionally wide-ranging repertoire is apparent from guest engagements that have brought her to the Bavarian State Opera (new production of Mefistofele), Berlin Staatsoper (Così fan tutte), the Hamburg Staatsoper (Madama Butterfly, Ariadne auf Naxos), the Frankfurt Oper (Madama Butterfly), the Dresden Semperoper (La bohème), the Zurich Opera (La juive), the Salle Gaveau, the New National Theatre Tokyo (Madama Butterfly), the Beijing Opera (Un ballo in maschera), the New Israeli Opera Tel Aviv (La juiveand Jenufa), the Bregenz Festival (Tosca and Aida), the Grand Théâtre de Genève (Madama Butterfly), the Finnish National Opera (Così fan tutte), the Royal Opera of Copenhagen (Così fan tutte), the Ópera de Bellas Artes of Mexico City (Eugene Onegin), the Vlaamse Opera of Antwerp (Madama Butterfly, Don Carlos, and Don Giovanni), Warsaw (Don Carlo), and the opera houses of Basel (Eugene Onegin and Norma) and Bern (Mazeppa), among others.

In 2016/2017 the soprano starred as Elena in Mefistofele at the Bavarian State Opera of Munich, sang the title role of Manon Lescaut in a new production at the Hannover State Opera, where she could also be heard as Tosca, Mimi in La bohème and Senta in Der fliegende Holländer. She returned to the Hungarian State Opera Budapest as Mimi in La bohème and to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Dusseldorf in the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos. As Mimì in La bohème she made her debut at the prestigious Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago.

In the season 2017/2018 Karine Babajanyan returned to the Staatsoper Stuttgart in the title role of Madama Butterfly, performed Tosca at Oper Leipzig and the Yerevan Opera Theatre, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem at the Philharmonie of Paris, the title role of Aida in a new production at the Hanover State Opera, where she also appeared in the title role of Manon Lescaut and as Elisabetta in Don Carlo.

Engagements of the season 2018/2019 include house debuts at the Wiener Staatsoper as Tosca, a role she also performed at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and at the Leipzig Opera. Further role debuts include Minnie in a new production of Puccini’s La fanciulla del West at Leipzig Opera, Carlotta in a new staging of Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten at the Hannover State Opera, Lisa in Das Land des Lächelns at the Grand Opera Shanghai and later at the Palace of Arts in Budapest, as well as performances in the title roles of Carmen at the Dubai Opera
in Yerevan, Madama Butterfly and Aida at the Hanover State Opera and the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf.
Karine Babajanyan has worked with such conductors and stage directors as Daniel Oren, Carlo Rizzi, Nicola Luisotti, Robin Ticciati, Lothar Zagrosek, Muhai Tang, Stefan Soltesz, Alexander Joel, Helmut Rilling, Piergiorgio Morandi, Jonathan Nott, Carlo Montanaro, and Julian Kovatchev; Peter Konwitschny, Philipp Himmelmann, Graham Vick, Jossi Wieler, Tatjana Gürbaca, Monique Wagemakers, Michael Schulz, and Dietrich Hilsdorf.

She recently appeared as Minnie in La fanciulla del West at the Korean National Opera in Seoul. In 2020, she performed in Pietro Mascagni’s Iris at the Konzerthaus Berlin and was nominated as singer of the year for the year 2021 from OPUS Klassik Awards, a prestigious German award.

Her solo album, Puccini Arias, was released by EMI Records and in 2008, she made a special appearance in the James Bond film, A Quantum of Solace, performing Tosca at the Bregenz Festival.

English

Don Carlos (French version)

Elisabeth de Valois

Manon Lescaut

Così fan tutte

Fiordiligi

Mazepa

Maria

Norma

Andrea Chenier

Maddalena di Coigny

A Masked Ball

Amelia

Tosca

Floria Tosca

Aida

Madame Butterfly

Cio-Cio-San

La Bohème

Mimì

Ariadne on Naxos

Ariadne

Pagliacci

Nedda

The Force of Destiny

Donna Leonora

Tannhäuser

Elisabeth

Primadonna

Falstaff

Mrs. Alice Ford

Don Giovanni

Donna Elvira

Mephistopheles

Elena

A Rare Thing

Isabella

The Magic Flute

Erste Dame

The Marriage of Figaro

La Contessa di Almaviva

The Troubadour

Leonora

Idomeneo

Elettra

Carmen

Eugene Onegin

Tatyana

Turandot

Liù

The Jewess

Rachel

Jenufa

Jenůfa

Don Carlo (Italian version)

Elisabetta di Valois

Sister Angelica

Suor Angelica

The Flying Dutchman

Senta

Requiem Mass

The Girl of the Golden West

Minnie

The Land of Smiles

Lisa

The Stigmatized

Carlotta Nardi

Iris

The Queen of Spades

Liza

The Valkyrie

Sieglinde

No role specified

The Wedding

Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103

Bass

Liang Li

Bass-baritone

Tomasz Konieczny

Conductor

Ivan Repušić

Enrique Mazzola

Stage director (+2)

Pier Luigi Pizzi

Set designer (+3)

Johannes Leiacker

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